The Insurance Doctor

Month: December 2018

  • 4 Reasons to Wear Pocket Squares

    4 Reasons to Wear Pocket Squares

    The holiday party season is in gear right now up until the last week of December!  For guys it’s time to consider adding pocket squares to your attire.

    1. People are judging you: Unfortunately for some and fortunately for others, people judge you on what you are wearing.
    2. Bag the stuffy tie: The pocket square with a suit gives a dressy look with or without a tie.
    3. Comfortable at cocktail parties: The pocket square look works with a sports jacket and jeans instead of the traditional suit and tie everyone else is wearing.
    4. Attention to detail: Folks will notice especially a matching pocket square with a shirt or jacket and you will earn respect that carries over to their perception of your business operations.
  • 5 little known tidbits about Hanukkah

    5 little known tidbits about Hanukkah

    Since it’s Hanukkah time and my sister in law is Jewish, I decided it was time to deepen my knowledge of the holiday. The holiday with the most different spellings I have ever seen. Happy Hanukkah, here’s what I found out;

    1 ) Spinning the dreidel was originally done by students illegally studying torah . When Greek soldiers would make a surprise raid , students would whip out a dreidel pretending to play a gambling game . dreidel

    2 ) The war of the Maccabees was the first ideological war, fought by a small band of pious Talmudic scholars who engaged in cunning stealth warfare. ( In Israel you can visit the caves they hid in )

    3 ) Hanukkah is celebrated 8 days even though the miracle of the oil was only 7 ( the first day’s lighting shouldn’t count – it’s natural ) to teach us that everything in the “natural” world is really a miracle caused by God .

    4 ) Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. There is no significance to giving gifts during the holiday. But there is a tradition to give gelt ( money ) to give kids an incentive to learn torah . ( Hanukkah also comes from the word “Hinuch,” education. )

    5 ) Around 17.5 million oily doughnuts ( sufganiyot ) are eaten in Israel during Hanukkah , commemorating the miracle of oil . ( Not a good time to start a diet! )